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Definition of Cinder
1. Noun. A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire.
Definition of Cinder
1. n. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
Definition of Cinder
1. Noun. Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc. ¹
2. Noun. An ember. ¹
3. Noun. Slag from a metal furnace. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) to reduce something to cinders ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cinder
1. to reduce to cinders (ashes) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinder
Literary usage of Cinder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manufacture of Iron, in All Its Various Branches: Including a by Frederick Overman (1854)
"Were it practically possible to make a cinder composed of potash, soda, ...
The melting of the cinder before the iron becomes soft is a disadvantage, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1891)
"REMOVING A BALL mon A CATALAN FORGE. cavities were filled with a more or less
fluid cinder. For the purpose of expelling this ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1888)
"A short series of results is given, from which the deduction follows that
blast-furnace cinder " is decomposed perfectly when chilled. ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The ends of the furnace chamber are lined with Bauxite bricks, and the circumference
with ferrous oxides, resulting from a mixture of furnace cinder ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1881)
"I allude to the utilization of mill cinder as a cheap and almost costless ...
Especially has mill cinder largely entered into the stock of furnaces attached ..."
6. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"cinder Notches: There is usually but one cinder notch. ... These are castings,
usually made of copper, and consist of a cinder cooler, an intermediate, ..."
7. Iron Making in Alabama by William Battle Phillips, Geological Survey of Alabama (1912)
"MILL cinder. Another material used in the Birmingham district as a source of iron
is mill cinder. It is a product from the rolling mills. ..."
8. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"(Sporting), the cinder, the running path. ... cinder grabber (popular), a servant
maid. ... cinder ..."
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